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• Eric Barone says "no one" is playing Haunted Chocolatier until he's ready

  13-10-2026 23:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Not even Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone's partner Amber gets to play his new game Haunted Chocolatier yet. That's because the Stardew Valley creator doesn't feel like his sophomore effort is finished yet, and if you've ever eaten a Thanksgiving day turkey that needed more time in the oven, you'll vividly remember how terrible it is serving half-baked anything.Talking to GQ, Barone says he's intent on making Haunted Chocolatier all by himself, with the exception of external marketing teams, just like
  
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• "Please tell me you're kidding": GTA 6's two delays flabbergasted Take-Two CEO

  14-10-2026 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The two GTA 6 delays might have been frustrating for you, but they were definitely worse for Strauss Zelnick, CEO of the game's publisher, Take-Two Interactive, who reportedly asked the unfortunate Rockstar dev who told him about them if they were "kidding."Speaking to Bloomberg, Rockstar's head of publishing, Jennifer Kolbe, said she had to call up Zelnick twice - once when GTA 6 was delayed out of Fall 2025 to a May 2026 date, and then again to say that it needed a second delay, this time from
  
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• DC Studios co-CEO gives the first Swamp Thing update in over a year – and it sounds promising

  14-10-2026 12:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Several DC Studios projects have fallen by the wayside – but not Swamp Thing.James Mangold's horror project has largely been on the backburner since it was first unveiled back in 2023.Speaking to Deadline at the Clayface premiere, DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran has confirmed that work is still ongoing on the film."We're working on it, absolutely," Safran said. "The script is being written as we speak. But it's something we're excited about. All these things take time – when you've al
  
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• Xbox Is Getting Into AI Gaming, Even If It Won’t Say So

  14-10-2026 12:50 via gamespot.com
  
  Vibe-coded games playable in web browsers have exploded in popularity recently, and amid a deluge of ports and remasters created with generative AI, Xbox is responding by creating Xbox Labs. The new branch of Xbox is described as an initiative designed to get more people playing games--especially on web browsers--but curiously, there's no mention of AI at all in the announcement."In recent weeks, we've seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally d
  
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• GTA 6 was delayed for years after Rockstar scaled back "Project Americas"

  14-10-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar North co-studio head and GTA 6 lead developer Rob Nelson explains that the open-world game has taken so long to come out, in part, due to a scrapped version dubbed "Project Americas."I don't know if anyone really noticed, but Rockstar Games has taken quite a while to follow up GTA 5 and release GTA 6. While we've had the massive Red Dead Redemption 2 in the meantime, the 13-year wait for GTA 6 has made fans quite feverish to play the next game in Rockstar's iconic crime series. Many ass
  
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• Crystal Lake creator and star Linda Cardellini reveal the Friday the 13th scene that "forms the basis of the series"

  14-10-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even though Pamela Voorhees is the original villain in the Friday the 13th franchise, she is often forgotten. The mix-up is so ingrained in horror culture that in Wes Craven's Scream, Ghostface asks his first victim who the original Camp Crystal Lake killer is, to which she says Jason. Throughout time, Jason Voorhees has become a horror icon, while his mother faded into the background. That's why Crystal Lake creator Brad Caleb Kane wanted the new prequel series to focus on Pam. "Well, we only s
  
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• VisionQuest fans think Ultron is "the highlight" of the new MCU show

  14-10-2026 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  VisionQuest has finally landed on Disney Plus, and the first two episodes bring back James Spader's fearsome Ultron – only now, he has a human guise, and he lives inside of Vision's head (along with the rest of the MCU AIs). Despite his new roommates, though, Ultron is still his villainous self, and MCU fans are loving seeing him again. The following contains spoilers for episode 1 and 2. In the second episode of the series, Paladin the bounty hunter takes Vision's son, Tommy Shepherd, hos
  
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• GTA 6 took 13 years, but Rockstar says GTA 7 won't

  14-10-2026 12:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although GTA 6 has taken a whopping 13 years to come to fruition following Grand Theft Auto 5, Rockstar promises that shouldn't be the case with GTA 7 or any other future projects, as it's got everything it needs to get 'em out more quickly.Phil Hooker, technical director at Rockstar, tells Bloomberg as much during a new interview, explaining that the foundation developers have built while creating GTA 6 – an entry that's arriving over a decade after predecessor GTA 5 launched back in 2013
  
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• Rockstar Says You Won’t Have To Wait Another 8 Years After GTA 6 For Its Next Game

  14-10-2026 12:43 via gamespot.com
  
  Rockstar has spent more than eight years developing Grand Theft Auto 6, but the studio hopes its next project will arrive considerably faster. Speaking to Bloomberg, Rockstar's head of development Phil Hooker explained how the company expanded its team and developed its technology for the hotly anticipated upcoming game, and how that'll make it easier to build future releases.
  Hooker said the studio expects to benefit from the foundations established during the lengthy production of GTA 6. "The
  
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• World of Warcraft: Forever aims to "aggressively shut down the flow of suspicious gold"

  14-10-2026 12:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although World of Warcraft: Forever is still only available to play via its Beta – a Beta which won't see any player progress carry over to Blizzard's full release, mind you – it's not enough to deter folks from purchasing in-game gold with real money.You know, real money trading. If you've played any MMO at all, whether that be retail World of Warcraft or something like Final Fantasy 14, you know it's a problem. And even though it doesn't really make sense financially, the WoW: Fore
  
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• Arc Raiders Wires Crossed guide and walkthrough

  14-10-2026 12:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Wires Crossed quest in Arc Raiders has you go to three different maps and find antennas at key locations for you to attach Arc components to in order to help Celeste. This divides the challenge up into two parts: acquiring the components needed, then hunting down the antenna in Spaceport, Blue Gate, and Buried City respectively. Below I'll take you on a full walkthrough of each step, so you can complete it as easily and painlessly as possible.How to complete Wires Crossed in Arc Raiders(Imag
  
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• DC boss James Gunn says the Clayface movie won't be the last we see of the shapeshifting Batman villain

  14-10-2026 11:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  The DCU's next movie, Clayface, has premiered, and the supervillain body horror is already being called "shockingly gruesome" in early reactions. Good news for all the Clay-heads out there, then: James Gunn has revealed this won't be the last we see of Matt Hagen in the DCU.Speaking to Cinemex on the Clayface red carpet, Gunn confirmed that the gloopy, shapeshifting bad guy will return in a future DCU project. "I think one of the most fun things about creating the DCU is being able to tell stori
  
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• VisionQuest's hidden Wanda Easter egg makes Vision's return even more tragic

  14-10-2026 11:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Last we checked, Wanda was definitely dead in the MCU. Having an entire mountain dropped on you – as shown in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – will do that to a person.Since then, we've had allusions to her fate in Agatha All Along (yep, still dead) and, now, a touching tribute to Scarlet Witch courtesy of Vision in VisionQuest. But there's almost no chance you spotted it first time around.As unveiled by an eagle-eyed user on Twitter, the moment in the VisionQuest premie
  
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• Clayface star Tom Rhys Harries lets slip that Matt Hagen knows Batman is in Gotham during the movie: "We have footage"

  14-10-2026 11:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Clayface press tour has only just started, but star Tom Rhys Harries may have already let slip that Batman is in Gotham while the new DCU movie takes place.When asked by ComicBook whether Matt or Caitlin are aware of Batman's presence in Gotham, Harries said, "We have footage, and I don't think it's… I don't know how much I can say about this. Yes, we had discussions about that at length."Now, we don't know if Harries is saying that there is or was footage of Batman himself, or if the
  
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• Hideo Kojima gives new Tom Cruise movie Digger a glowing review, despite it being a historic flop

  14-10-2026 11:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  The new Tom Cruise movie from director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Digger, has received a glowing review from Hideo Kojima. The black comedy film follows an oil magnate (Cruise) who must save the world from an environmental disaster he set in motion. "I had been holding off on posting my thoughts until the interview was released," Kojima posted on Twitter, in reference to a conversation between himself and Iñárritu published on Gizmodo. "Director Iñárritu's D
  
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• How To Get Bramblin In Pokemon Go

  14-10-2026 11:25 via gamespot.com
  
  Pokemon Go is celebrating the changing of the seasons with a Fall Marathon, and as part of the event, a ghostly new Pokemon has arrived in time for Halloween. The haunted tumbleweed Bramblin is now appearing for a limited time, making this your first chance to catch one in the mobile game, but tracking one down may not be so straightforward.Unlike most of the event's other featured Pokemon, Bramblin will only appear under certain circumstances, so you'll need to put in a bit of work if you're ho
  
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• Clayface first reactions say the DCU horror movie "holds nothing back" and is "shockingly gruesome"

  14-10-2026 10:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first reactions have landed for Clayface, and it seems the new DCU horror is winning over early viewers. Directed by James Watkins, the movie tells the origin story of the iconic Batman villain, played here by Tom Rhys Harries.With a script from Mike Flanagan, it seems the movie does not hold back on the body horror. Critics have been calling it "disgusting", "brutal", and "unsettling". Rhys Harries has also landed a lot of praise, while others have pointed out that the movie doesn't require
  
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• After 8 years, Ultima creator says his MMO Shroud of the Avatar finally has "zero bugs" thanks to AI

  14-10-2026 01:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ultima creator Richard Garriott is no stranger to controversy. Although he's a foundational progenitor of early computer RPGs, his newer releases haven't had nearly the level of impact as his early work and his stances on stuff like NFTs and AI haven't all been particularly well-received. In a recent appearance on the TechJesse podcast, Garriott wades into the shark-infested waters that is AI discourse in the games industry. The proliferation of AI data centers is one of the main factors driving
  
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• AI-upscaled Total War: Shogun 2 remaster blasted in Steam reviews as the original gets delisted

  14-10-2026 00:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition launched today, offering a modern remaster of one of the best Total War games ever made. So why is it drowning in overwhelmingly negative Steam reviews? Well, its art has suffered what appears to be questionable AI upscaling, it runs worse than the original, and the devs are charging $10 extra to jump in. As if adding insult to injury, the devs have even gone and delisted the original version altogether."Literally the greed they talk about in the Bible," as
  
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• One MMO player spent 6,572 hours setting a new world record – about 30% of the last 4 waking years

  13-10-2026 23:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Almost nowhere but in MMOs will you find speedruns measured in months, not minutes or hours. One Old School RuneScape diehard recently shattered one of the most time-consuming records around, racking up 6,572 hours played on a quest to collect every pet in the game as fast as possible. Our champion is Coxie, an OSRS player who, three years after getting all of these pets the old-fashioned way, decided to do it again on a timer. The first chapter of the video series chronicling this was uploaded
  
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• Xbox is forming a whole division in response to the vibe-coded game recomp explosion

  13-10-2026 22:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Every day seems to bring another announcement of a classic console game getting a fresh recomp allowing it to be played on modern PCs. Many – though not all, and certainly not the best – of those recomps are powered by AI coding, and the wave of community interest in these projects is helping to inspire a new initiative at Microsoft called Xbox Labs.What is Xbox Labs? According to Xbox boss Asha Sharma, it's "a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists whose job is to turn
  
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• New Bungie boss casually shares Destiny 1 running on PC at 60 FPS in 4K thanks to fan project

  13-10-2026 22:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Destiny preservationists have managed to bring the original game to PC with plentiful bells and whistles, and it's caught the attention of Bungie boss Josh Deane. YouTube user Flummoxed posted a 4K, 105 FOV, 60+ FPS demonstration of Destiny 1 running on PC with mostly correct behaviors. When it was picked up on Twitter by DestinyNostalgia, Deane shared the post, writing, "Seems like a pretty game, wonder if it will do well…" With new Bungie leadership promising to stay committed to Destin
  
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• Hideo Kojima Reviews The Resident Evil Movie

  13-10-2026 21:42 via gamespot.com
  
  Writer-director Hideo Kojima has seen Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie, and he has now shared his review. Kojima, a true cinephile known for his public movie reviews, said he "wasn't particularly interested" in seeing the movie at first, but he did, and he sounded pretty impressed by what he saw."Right from the opening, it hits you with music reminiscent of The Thing. From there, it’s a relentless barrage of classic horror techniques, terrifying situations, and jump scares that never let
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 actor says her role as an iconic goblin is why she was cast in Metaphor: ReFantazio

  13-10-2026 21:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  From one beloved RPG to the next, voice actor Holly-Marie Michael says she was cast as Catherina in Metaphor: ReFantazio due to her role as Sazza in Larian's 2023 GOTY RPG, Baldur's Gate 3.Talking to GamesRadar+, Michael says the Cockney accent she put on to portray the working class goblin in Baldur's Gate 3 is the very reason she's now known as Catherina, the pink-haired bounty hunter in Metaphor: ReFantazio."Funnily enough, I got the role of Catherina by playing Sazza in Baldur's Gate 3," Mic
  
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• Battlefield 6 Now Lets You Instantly Unlock All Guns At 100% Mastery For $30

  13-10-2026 21:05 via gamespot.com
  
  It's a big week for Battlefield 6, as the game just launched its big Season 5 update, arrived on Xbox Game Pass, and ushered in a new Game of the Year Edition. That's not all, however, as the military shooter added a big new microtransaction in the form of the Ultimate Shortcut Kit.Similar to how these shortcut kits worked in past Battlefield games, Battlefield 6's $30 no-so-microtransaction instantly unlocks all of the game's guns for all four classes, and at 100% Mastery--this means they are f
  
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• Despite Huge Changes For The Series, Halo Fest 2026 Is Going Forward, And News Is Coming Soon

  13-10-2026 20:30 via gamespot.com
  
  The big Halo Fest event planned for December is going ahead as planned, despite mass layoffs and other major changes at developer Halo Studios.Halo Studios director of competitive engagement, Tashi, confirmed this and said there will be news about Halo Fest this week. Additionally, Halo Studios will release materials "celebrating the community and 25 years of Halo," while fans can also look forward to "relevant game info" about in-market Halo games.
  "There's a huge amount of Halo fans who are lo
  
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• Narnia: The Magician's Nephew first trailer shows Greta Gerwig's take on the Wood Between the Worlds

  13-10-2026 20:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Greta Gerwig's Narnia: The Magician's Nephew has arrived, and it's every bit as magical as you're expecting.In the trailer, which you can watch above, we finally see Gerwig's interpretation of one of the most beloved fantasy series of all time, and it's a fever dream I won't soon forget. I'm already in love with Meryl Streep as Aslan, and the choice of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven to back the trailer will no doubt prove a controversial one, even if I loved it.This is G
  
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• Red Dead’s Shocking Twist Ending Angered A Lot Of People, But It Was The Right Call, Rockstar Co-Founder Says

  13-10-2026 19:52 via gamespot.com
  
  Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has recalled the controversial ending to 2010's Red Dead Redemption in which the main character, John Marston, is killed.
  He said in an interview that the game's lead designer, Christian Cantamessa was on board with the idea to kill off Marston, but Houser wondered about the production realities of, "How does an open-world game work if you've killed the protagonist?""So I said, ‘I think maybe we have to kill him.’ And he goes, ‘That's a great idea
  
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• "He was one of us": Unexpected tributes to RJ Mitte from MMO fans after Breaking Bad star dies

  13-10-2026 19:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Actor RJ Mitte, known to many as Walter White Jr. in hit drama Breaking Bad, has died at age 34 reportedly by suicide. Tributes from Breaking Bad leads Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul soon arrived, and have now been joined by countless online messages shared by players who knew Mitte as a lover of MMORPGs like World of Warcraft and RuneScape.In a July 2013 Comic-Con interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Mitte was asked about his deep-cut obsessions. He explained that, "Before World of Warcraft ha
  
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• The best skills in Valor Mortis to get early and become a master of combat

  13-10-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The best skills in Valor Mortis don't exactly match the standard suite of Soulslike stats to invest in, opting instead to provide you with a selection of powers and abilities to purchase with each level-up. While the skills available may look simple and easy to choose, the ones that make a dramatic difference to your survivability tend to fall into the melee category, as it's the only option available to you at all times. With that in mind, here's our pick for the best skills to buy first in Val
  
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